Cannot view CD contents

[Ian Lochray]

I tried cutting a CD on aother PC with the same Roxio software and got the same error. I then tried cutting a CD on my laptop with some basic drag and drop software. That mounted no problem.
A colleague pointed out that the Roxio software provides two methods of creating CDs - Roxio Creator Classic (which I had been using) and Roxio Easy Media Creator. I tried the latter and that worked fine too.
I can only assume that the Roxio Creator Classic software is not compatible with Tru64 UNIX.

[Steven Schweda]

> I can only assume that the Roxio Creator
> Classic software is not compatible with
> Tru64 UNIX.

Or something about its default settings, or
something about the way you're using it, or ...

[Ian Lochray]

That was my initial thought too so I tried cutting CDs with all of the available project settings. None of them worked on Tru64 but all worked as expected on Windows and HP-UX.

[Steven Schweda]

One more low-probability possibility would be
that the CD drive in the Alpha is getting old
and blind (or dim), and that it just can't
read some of your home-made CD-R(W) discs.
It's possible (although perhaps not likely)
that a disc written by your laptop is enough
easier to read that the Alpha's drive can
read that one but not the disc(s) written by
the other drive(s).

Related questions:

What's the CD drive in the Alpha, and how old
is it? (How hard would it be to swap that
drive?)

Are you making CD-R or CD-RW discs? (CD-RW
is harder to read.)


Unlikely or not, I had a problem like that
with an old (4X Toshiba?) drive in a Sun
(clone) workstation system a while ago.
Different symptoms, but some "known-good"
CD-R discs did not work on the Solaris
system, and it took me too long to suspect
the hardware. Some discs worked, so I
assumed that the CD drive was good, but it
wasn't good enough to read some of my
home-made discs.

Also, CD-ROM drives which predate CD-R discs
may be expected to have more trouble reading
the home-made variety. An RRD42, for
example, would not be a good choice for
reading a CD-RW disc.

Of course, the "ls: /cdrom not found" symptom
is suboptimal, irregardful of the reason.

[Ian Lochray]

Used a different version of CD creation software.